The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-02-05
STRIKE in THE EAST.
TIE SITUATION NOT so BAD
As 1t has Becn-Freight Bclng Handled by
Non.Union Decentralization Of tho
Difficulties Not fet Given Up.
Other Labor Troubles. q.

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Difficulties Not iet Given Up.
Other Labor Troubles.
NEw foRK, Feb. 4.-There WAS slight
improvement In the condition Of Affairs
on the river front thiS morning. The
nteamship companies are slowly recover.
Ing from the staRnation to the buainess
that the strike at frat caused, and are
removing freight with more dispatch than
on any OF tho past four or FIVE days.
Nowhere IL this moro noticeable than on
the East river front. Most Of the steamers
are boing got away on their regular sail.
ing days and the freight lines arc once
more receiving and delivering goods. In
most cases tho work on the steamer piers
Is being done by green men and on tho
freight linea by the dock hands Of the
freight boatn. The tramp steamesv are
being discharged and loaded by their own
crews, assisted by Italian and other nom
union labor. .s.9Gs~iTr :
The steamer Niagara Ia being loaded to.
day and will bs ready to sail on time to.
morrow. There are about twenty old
hands at work on this dock. They were
given the advance Of forty cents ior day
work and eixty cents for night WORK. At
the Bristol Line dock the steamer War.
wick was diecharging with her own crew
and fifty Italians. The regular mon did
not put in on appearance whom the boat
arrived. The Alamo, Of tho Mallory line,
Is still at the bulkhead. When she will
be ready to sail no ono can tell, but an
effort will be made to get her cargo in to.
morrow. The City OF San Antonio and
the Lampasas arc also docked waiting to
be discharged.
Tho White Star steamship Republic and
Cunard Line steamship City OF Chicago,
scheduled to sail to-day with the Transat-
lantic mails, were NOT able 10 get of be-
cause OF the strike. -
In an editorial on the strike, in the
Standard, Horny George says: III think
1t is fight in the dark, the blind push OF
men squeezed past endurance. i think it
the first passive form Of civil war, which
staOl.clad forts and armor-plated ships can
not guard uB against-the kindlins Of pas-
sons and tho srraying OF forces that,
roused to full energy, may give cities TO
the hames and destroy our very ciyiliza.
ton itself."
EFFORTS TO SETTLE THE STRIKE.
President Corbir, Of the Reading Rail.
road, was seen by areporter this morning,
and asked II the reports were correct that
all the negotiations tending toEsrd arbi.
tration OF the great strike were OIL. Mr..
Corbin answered that the efforts to bring
about q settlement were not abandoned,
but also aaid there was no change in tho
situation. The police line the piefs on
West and South etreeta, ard detectives
are about the immediate vicinity OF the
large ocean steamship piers, ready to pre-
vent any attack upon non.uniop men
going to and from their work. l. is not
believed that there will be any outbreak
while there ie chance for arbitration.
The brakemen, freight handlers, train
men, switchmeD, conductors, trsckmen,
and tireMen are organized to man, and
their representatives hrve been clamoring
loudly for this sction for uome time past.
This step in the csss of the Philadelphia
and Readiug railroad was taken because
1t has been the principal coal carrying
road to the Eastern and interior States,
ald it has openly delicd any action which
the knights might take to cripple it.
This ia the first OF series OF coups to bring
the trouble to decisive point Gud the
officers Of District 40 hlye more surprises
Tor the public which they will enforce in q
few days.
"No stone will be lefL unturned town
the great strike. Nothing that can aid to
that end will bs overlooked" 80 vi
SUPPLIES FOR STRIKERS.
At the headquarters Of the Ocean Asso.
citation to-day it was said thst Smith &
Mcneil, restaurant keepara, had sgrced to
supply quantity OF provisions for the
families Of the strikers and that many
landlords had sgraed no. to press them for
rent. Supplies wore offered also by butch.
ers and bsksrs. The etrikers on the pier
Of the New Haven & Hartford Railroad,
East river, wore to.dsy admitted into the
Union. This makes over 400 admitted
this week.
The caulkers and joinera at work re-
pairing the Guyandotte, the Old Dominion
steamer that YVES damaged by the explc-
sion Of an internal machine, struck to-day.
Thsy have no grievances, hu! struck out
o. sympathy with tho freight handlers.
Their places will be filled tomorrow by
non-union men.
The coopers, employed olaag the piers
with the nillwsights, joined tho strike to.
day. The painters and mechanics on the
Guion line struck to-day. The Italians
who TOOK the places OF tho strikers at the
Hudson river depot quit work this after